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Armageddon
Claims Armageddon will come in the year 2006 when Atlantis rises from the Caribbean.
http://redhat.bravehost.com/
Arthur C. Clarke's Predictions
Science fiction king's predictions about the future on Kurzweil AI Net.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D686
Battelle - Technology Forecasts
Battelle Institute predicts technology. Includes top ten technologies, top ten breakthroughs for household products, and other top ten lists.
http://www.battelle.org/SPOTLIGHT/tech_forecast/index.aspx
BBC - h2g2 - Predicting the Future
Users can make predictions about the future for later comparison.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A216433
Book Review: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, by Ray Kurzweil
Book discusses Moore's Law (computers double in "intelligence" every two years) and how AI will inevitably surpass human intelligence in about 20 years.
http://www.mikeogara.net/bookreviews/taosm/
The Chronicle of the Future
By the Sunday Times.
http://www.chronicle-future.co.uk/
2012: Dire Gnosis
Prophecies focussed on the year AD 2012 with sources including calendrical systems, visions, religions, archaeology, tribal prophecies, NDEs, OOBEs, contemporary shamanism.
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/
Dr. David Passig
Futurist lecturer-consultant who specializes in technological, social and educational forecasting. Materials in English and Hebrew.
http://www.passig.com
Essence: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future, by Octavia E. Butler
A science fiction writer explains how to use the past to come up with useful future scenarios.
http://exittheapple.com/applesauce/2007/04/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future/
Failing Predictions:. Future society
Claims that predictions usually fail. Nevertheless gives a summary of unsolved conflicts in present-day society that will affect the future.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/21stcent.html
Falling Forward
Science fiction writer Brian Dana Akers' predictions for the 21st century.
http://www.briandanaakers.com/falling.html
Future History (David Cary)
Attempts to predict future technological trends.
http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/future_history.html
The Future of Humanity
A set of articles from Principia Cybernetica Project Web dealing with approaches to making predictions about the future of evolution.
http://pcp.lanl.gov/FUTEVOL.html
A Future Timeline of Humanity and the Universe
Predicts technological and sociological developments over the next millennium, and forecasts the ultimate destiny of humanity and the universe. Gets better the farther out.
http://humanknowledge.net/SocialScience/Futurology/Timeline.html
Global Change - What Will the Future be Like?
Web TV, online books and features by futurist Dr. Patrick Dixon: future of life on earth, cloning, biotechnology, digital age, business, banking, management, marketing, lifestyles, health, politics, economics.
http://www.globalchange.com/globalch.htm
The Global Technology Revolution: Summary
Predicts impact of technology on life in the year 2015.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1307/MR1307.sum.html
Humanity's Future
Forecasts humanity's next two millennia to identify technological, sociopolitical, industrial and academic developments.
http://humanknowledge.net/SocialScience/Futurology.html
Ian Pearson
BT's Futurologist - presents his insights into the future of many aspects of our daily lives - from work to leisure, and from capitalism to the care economy.
http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.pearson/
ICalledIt.com
A Net community for forecasting the future publicly in hopes of influencing it.
http://www.icalledit.com
Life in the Future
General predictions for the year 2010.
http://www.alittlehistory.com/future.htm
Long Bets
Discussion and wagers on important future events.
http://www.longbets.org/
massProphet
A web place to publicly share predictions about the future.
http://www.massprophet.com
The Millennium Calendar
Chronological schedule of predicted and actual events linked to millennial prophecies, including NASA space launches. Runs from Rapture expected in 1998 to end of the world in 3797.
http://www.skypoint.com/~camilian/prophecy/
Mooneyham's Speculative Timeline
A timeline of the future based on technological and scientific predictions.
http://www.jrmooneyham.com/future_history_timeline.html
Moore's Law - Is the End Upon Us?
An article by Carlo Kopp analyzing the behaviour of Moore's Law and speculating on likely future outcomes.
http://www.ausairpower.net/OSR-0700.html
NY Chinatown's Future Predictions
Audio interviews and links to the predictions of futurists.
http://www.nychinatown.com/eud_future.htm
Part I: Timeline: past and future
A future timeline based on combining Biblical with extraterrestrial and some scientific sources.
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/prediction/51/text-files/timeline.html
Peering into the future
InfoWorld Test Center's Future Watch. Future timeline of computer technology and enterprise computing.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/00/10/16/001016tcfwintro.xml
Phrenicea
Presents a futuristic scenario based on the ultimate outcome of the Internet and biotechnology revolutions; promotes discussion and debate of present-day technological and social trends.
http://www.phrenicea.com/
Predictions and Prophesy
Summary of ancient and modern prophecies of the end of the world, plus the Global Disaster Watch.
http://home.att.net/~thehessians/
Predicto.net
Consensus view of the future based on user generated predictions.
http://predicto.net
Retro Future
Twentieth century predictions of future technology that never happened.
http://retrofuture.com/
21st century - Wikipedia
User-supported 21st century timeline plus predictions for the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
Take Hold of the Future
Offers many videos, magazine articles, and books on all aspects of the future by Dr. Patrick Dixon.
http://www.globalchange.com/
Timeline tracks possible future of technology
BTexact Technologies offers a white paper.
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story127237.html
Using World History to Predict the Future
Civilizations have predictable life cycles.
http://www.worldhistorysite.com/prediction.html
Web of Fate
A social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future events.
http://www.weboffate.com/
The World of 2088
What the world will be like according to the University of Washington.
http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june98/2088.html
The Year 2012
News, speculation, and prophecy on the year 2012.
http://www.theyear2012.blogspot.com/
ZiiTrend
A user-driven online community for predicting future events and trends.
http://www.ziitrend.com
Forecast Puts Earth's Future Under a Cloud
An overview of scientists' predictions of the inmact of global temperatures rise on climate change. Guardian, Science. <small>(May 15, 2006)</small>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1844789,00.html
The Future of Humanity
A transcript of a lecture given by Dr. Isaac Asimov at Newark College of Engineering. <small>(November 8, 1974)</small>
http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/future_of_humanity.html
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